Editor’s note: This article was first published in March 2014, as a news item that did not come true as described: Christian Bale later withdrew, and the 2015 film Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle, starred Michael Fassbender.
After the cinematic flop of the previous film about Steve Jobs, in which, in my personal opinion, the only thing worth saving was the performance of Ashton Kutcher, who prepared thoroughly for the role, everything suggests, according to The Wrap, that Christian Bale (Batman) has been chosen to play the most visionary entrepreneur of our recent history.
The life of Steve Jobs offers a great deal of material, and the truth is that the previous film made some glaring mistakes, as if a couple of amateurs had written the script. This time the film could be a very different story, because it is based on the authorised biography by Walter Isaacson, who has always shown great interest in the complicated relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Remember that Bill Gates did not appear anywhere in the previous film.
This time we might see Jobs’s whole career and go into more detail on the less trivial things. For example, how Steve Jobs came up with the idea for the iPad, given that Microsoft made tablets before Apple, or even the love-hate relationship between Jobs and Gates: although they were business rivals, they used to go out to dinner with their wives.
And without a doubt Christian Bale, who is associated with the figure of Batman, is ideal to play both the genius and the monster that lived inside Steve Jobs. Filming is expected to start this year, with the film ready for cinemas in 2015.
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